Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-27
WOODVILLE NOTES.
The Little Town Upon h Divide-Its
Business honses-Surrounding Mines
-Railroad NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Over
the Laying Out of = Now County Road,
Etc.

-R0t1r00d NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Ovef
the Laying Out of . Now County Road,
Etc.
WooDv1LLE, M. T., July 23.-[Special
CORES pondence of The Miner. Will the
little town upon the divide does not pre-
sent the lively appearance it did q few
years ago, still there is abundant surround
ing evidence of it's stability and that it's
prospects for future prosperity may be
quoted as fair to good. In the language of
this wild, free West, Woodville will "be on
top" when many other places at present
more p~retentious will be dead and forgot
ten. It's few
BUSINESS HOUSES
are enjoying a fair trade from reside Mt and
transient patrons, and are surely though
slowly gathering shekels for a rainy day.
As for health, it stands 100 in the scale OF
that number. No one becomes i'll up here.
Situated upon the divide, it's air is as pure
as q virgin, as bracing as a cocktail and
as healtb-giving as the elixir OF life. As a
retreat for the oyerwurked city toiler who
seeks to r~ecuperate his exhausted strength,
no place in the West can excel it. Mr.. and
Mrs. W. J. Ward stand ready to extend q
hearty welcome to the visitor at their hos
pitable inn and to satisfy the wants OF the
inner an.
Mr.. c. M. Floyd, the genial and good:
looking Postmaster, has d fne stock OF
goods suitable to the wants OF the commu-
nifty, and is always prepared to cater to
the taste of the bibulously inclined with
the finest brands of wet goods. he is a
patron of The MINER and swears by it.
Uncle Tommy Wright-all old timers
know Uncle Tpmmy-has a store and sa-
loon just below Floyd's, and enjoys his
share of public patronage. He has a smile
for every one. and a drop or SO OF 1.-The
best the market affords" for the weary
who gives him a call.
Mr.. William Noonan is the only Vulcan
and dispenser of justice in the place. In
renairinp infractions OF the law, broken
wagons horse shoeing and developing his
fine mining properties, his time is fully &C.
cupied. Judge Noonan is also a patron OF
The MINER.
THE MINING PROPERTIES
of the vicinity are looming up into import
ance and attracting the attention OF CAPT
talists. The Major Budd mine. situated
about three-fourths of a mile from the
Mace. is too well known to need extended
notice. Its great value as an ore producer
il established beyond question. 1t is I'm
derstood here it's sale to Eastern parties
has not yet been consummated: JUG
Noonan is interested with w. H. De Witt
w. l, Lippincott, E. A. Nichol, H. =. q
ton and John Floyd in a group OF mlnef
which are right in Woodville, the Empire
mine, the Susquehanna and the Loya
| Sock and three other claims which lie Dc
tween them and are yet undeveloped.
THE EMPIRES DISCOVERY SHAFT
ia about 300 feet from the county road OF
the summit of the Rocky Mountains IN a
westerly direction. The lead is about two
and a half feet wide and assays IS ounces
in silver. The Susquehanna. north OF tn
| Empire, has q shaft twenty feet deep VIII
an iS-inch ledge Of ore that assays a
ounces. The Loyal Sock is eighteen hun
dred feet north OF the last and has q shai
25 feet deep with q vein 20 inches Wild as
IN the LOYAL Sock. The Susquehanna i
REGARDED as the best claim of them all al
The walls are moro defined and the ledg
looks better than the others. WoodvIilel
stability is assured by the immediate
nresence oil fine silver mines which will D.
more thoroughly developed when the rail
road shall be completed through the plac
and cheaper transportation facilitle
offered.
RAILROAD GRADING
along the line here is being rapidly pushes
tn completion The sub-contractors
Messrs, Cobb & Earl, have about invent.
men employed in running the open Gu
through the divide of the mountains, upo1
Inch the little town of Woodville stands
Tha cut. which will average sixteen feet i
denth. takes in the only thoroughfare i
the Mace, and therefore necessitates tn
iav;no out OH new county road. An
about this matter q radical difference
on;nion exists among a few citizens OF tn
niace as to the proper location Tor the me-
road. One or two contend that it shout
he r,1n upon the west side OF the cut, thu
leaving the p~ostoffice and Floyd's out i
the cold' as it were, while Others with
show of good reasoning hold that it Shout
!, he located upon the east side OF the Gu
thus accommodating all and leaving 1t t
free access from the great mines in tn
Fourth of July district. The question
he;na coolly discussed and will probably
satisfactorily settled in the near future.
OCCASIONAL.